Modern day preachers never mention hell. That’s positive. I think they just wouldn’t have much of an audience if they preached hell and damnation.
When ■■■■ gets weird and the sz starts seeming like a curse I’ll slip into that mindset of im marked to burn in hell. Then I realize I’m atheist. That I have never came up with a good concept of heaven and therefore it can’t exist. If heaven doesn’t exist then why would hell(even if it’s easier to imagine). By that time I have the clarity to see that none of that ■■■■ is real. If things from the outside of the brain were interacting with things inside the brain we’d have caught it by now.
I don’t think they’d hide it. In fact there are extensive experiments that have failed.
Still though spend a day in my mind and you’d definitely believe that everyone is telepathic.
I am not religious - and I am under the spell of a pretty severe depression now, but as far as I am concerned this life is a little bit of Hell
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I woke up with a nightmare this morning and talked myself out of it by thinking “I have no reason to believe it.” And I don’t.
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Life is suffering and hard work. It’s probably a trick of evolution that we ever enjoy it.
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Yes, but their are rewards to the suffering of hard work - feelings of accomplishment, gratification, money, and the fact that you and others love the results.
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That’s true. It might just be that were deprived on the right to feel good until we earn. A part of societal structure.
Have to get out of the house, grow up and earn. Sounds like you had a nightmare for a mother like I did.
My mothers a saint.
She was pretty pushy though. First 14 years of my life the parents were fighting. They divorced. Things got much better. It gave me the wiggle room I needed to start using drugs… Now I’m sz.
Anyways it’s hard to feel good about life when you’re stuck on the sidelines. Unless your lucky enough to be loved… And that doesn’t even work for some people.
It might not be suffering but it does require a lot of endurance. Probably why we need sleep.
You’re lucky your parents divorced and you could know a better side of your mother. I’m sure if my parents had divorced, my mother would have straightened up a lot.
I’ll consider myself lucky.
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I think many people suffer and have their Hell on earth.
Then if they believe in God and have been in contact with Him they will be in heaven for eternity.
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It’s not a matter of “wanting” to talk about it for me. I talk about hell. It’s hell on earth. Call me delusional. Call me schizophrenic. But I’ve seen God. And I know he’s watching out for me.
There’s no way I’m going to hell even if there’s such a thing.
But that said I’m feeling good today.
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Hell is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and somehow expecting it will make things better. For example, rehashing every thing that ever went wrong in their childhood for every remaining day of their lives. I would posit that talking about hell is probably more positive than making your own and moving in long-term.
Hey, you brought it up.
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that kind of hell is relative and not constant or eternal or after death - a nonChristian definition. Which is better - to suffer in silence or to open up about it. “Share a sorrow, half the sorrow. Share a joy, twice the joy.” Tragedies are in music, literature, art and cinema. They are not discounted.
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That’s because everyone wants to go to heaven, I have never seen any lines for people wanting to go to hell.
Like I say, it’s positive and sells religion better.
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Disguising the outcast of the Lord God is just a ploy to try to win the spirits of men, women and children.
The best thing the devil ever did was to convince people the devil didn’t exist.
Scythes , or shepherd crooks, it’s hard to tell sometimes…what if the greatest powers were those of the damned? Wouldn’t their children suffer too, perhaps?
The devil would make you all ride bicycles…